# Modern systems don't establish time in isolation

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Modern systems don't establish time in isolation\. They synchronize against shared references, and the Global Positioning System carries that reference into applications where precision matters, such as trading\.

TheHUB is designed to timestamp incoming data in hardware against

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- Source published: 2026\-09\-17T14:45:39\.000Z
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